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Are there no "Cryptofascists" in the GOP?

I'm sure there are. What's your point? Why are you trying to defend Cusack or build him up as some sort of friend of freedom? It's pretty well known the man's a Democratic

Hollywood star John Cusack has attacked filmmaker Michael Moore for failing to support the Democratic party in the last American presidential elections. Moore, who won the Best Documentary Oscar at this year's Academy Awards for his anti-gun film Bowling For Columbine, threw his backing behind left-wing candidate Ralph Nader in the 2000 elections - but Cusack believes that he should have joined him in tactical support of Democratic candidate Al Gore instead - to ensure Republican George W. Bush was beaten. Cusack explains, "He lost a lot of credibility when he went and campaigned for Ralph Nader because he was dead wrong when it counted. I'm not a huge fan of the Democratic party, but I knew there was a huge difference between them and the Bush crowd. Don't tell me Al Gore would have handed out the contract to rebuild Iraq before he'd given the order to bomb it."
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As Election Day draws near, both parties are parading out their celebrity support in hopes of gaining voters.

So far, John Cusack, Jon Bon Jovi and Melissa Etheridge have been in southeast Wisconsin to show support for Gore.
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When it comes to the current administration, quirky John Cusack certainly seems to share the same sentiments as those of Michael Moore. In the past, Cusack referred to members of the Bush team as “f---ing crypto-fascists.”
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Of course it's okay for you to have everything fall apart," [Cusack says about Nader's showbiz supporters.] "But a lot of people have to deal with the world the way it is, and it would have been a lot less brutal for some people with [Al] Gore than it will be now under Bush. ... I'm not saying I loved Gore. But I'm saying I don't want that mother-f*cking Bush in the White House."
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I was raised Catholic until I was old enough, you know, to say no. My father was great friends with [peace activist] Phil Berrigan, who just passed away. So obviously, I was informed by his kind of radical, left-wing Jesuit mindset."
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“This dude who’s got control of the White House now, he’s gonna do a lot of damage,” Cusack says. “I think people are gonna respond to all the hypocrisy of this Bush administration. He’s sort of like this great sort of symbol of inversion to me – the inverse of the truth. It’s like the ethics of the new millennium, the new dawn: All you have to do is say something and it’s true. It doesn’t matter if it’s based on any core principle; it doesn’t matter if it’s based on any facts. The most important thing is the aesthetic. If you have a compassionate aesthetic, that‘s all we need to do. All you have to do is say ‘I’m Muslim.’ But you don’t actually ever go to a mosque. You don’t have to give up pork. You don’t have to do anything. You don’t have to believe in Allah. You just say it. And maybe wear a turban. That’s the level of the hypocrisy and stupidity that’s going on right now.”
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"Bush means Dick Cheney, Tom DeLay, and all these f*cking crypto-fascists are gonna get in and start carving up the pie and handing in all their markers to the Republican Party that's been itching to get back into power,"